#classic interiors

[coffeeandstrawberries]

Petworth House by Nathan Rollinson

[youngroyalsforever]

Chatsworth House by Oskar Proctor

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

cr: danielapardor on instagram

[theroadtoyou]

[vox-anglosphere]

By 1797, Saltram was deemed the finest country house in Devonshire

[the-home]

High Street, Hadleigh Suffolk

[krrjuus]

Home Office Built-In in Calgary Large elegant built-in desk dark wood floor and brown floor home office library photo with brown walls, a hanging fireplace and a brick fireplace

[sincerelytennessee]

[escapismsworld]

[coffeeandstrawberries]

Pierre Bergé’s home via Apollo Art & Antiques

[vintagehomecollection]

In an Irish House, 1988

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Sandycombe Lodge, house of painter JMW Turner. Twickenham, London, UK.

cr: inigo.com

[theroadtoyou]

[gentlemanmotorslifestyle]

[thepaintedroom]

Nikolay Yurievich Anokhin (Russian, b. 1966) • The Royal Bedchamber • 2014

[finelythreadedsky]

your tags. yeah. it's not that they are progressive or feminist or even written by women -- but they are doing something with women that is complex and worth paying attention to, and in many cases they are the reason we have a version of a particular woman's story at all

yeah that's one of the marketing conceits of the myth retelling novel industrial complex that bothers me, it's the framing as if no one has ever paid attention to these female characters who are buried unnoticed in the myths when often the most complete or the most authoritative version of the character's story that survives from antiquity is in tragedy, a genre that is notoriously interested in bringing female characters out of the house and putting them on stage in active roles, and in using those female characters to explore issues of gender and the place of women in contemporary society.

like to a certain degree it makes sense for the homeric women who don't appear in (extant) tragedy, like briseis or the hanged women in odyssey 22, but we have stories where clytemnestra and deianira and medea insist on make narrative space for themselves to tell their own stories from their own perspectives, refusing to be silent about the violence their society inflicts upon women and the lasting damage it does. they're called aeschylus' agamemnon and sophocles' trachiniae and euripides' medea. and maybe you want to retell those stories for modern audiences, changing things or emphasizing different aspects of them! and that's great! but framing it as if they've been ignored and their stories are as-yet-untold is just not accurate, and it's a cheap way to paint your work as innovative and subversive.